CSSY Distributes Cheesecakes in Honor of Shavous
Chevra Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov is hand delivering cheesecakes to families throughout Crown Heights as part of an ongoing project to reach out to the needy families in our community.
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Crown Heights Communities Hold Opioid Awareness Event
“If I needed to get help right now — I wouldn’t know who to call”, said Sara Benjamin, who lost her son, Kasriel to an overdose six years ago, on the stage of Operation Survival’s Opioid Epidemic Conference at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights Wednesday evening.
Shavuos Shlichus to “Smalltown, USA”
Mobile, Alabama. Boise, Idaho. Spokane, Washington. Not quite your typical vacation destinations! But this week, 128 rabbinical students will be flying out to “Small Town, USA” for Shavuos, to bolster the yom tov joy and spirit for the shluchim and their families living there.
Instant Torah: Why Count?
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Bamidbar is titled: a perspective on interest.
Video: What is the Jewish 3 Step Program?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Bamidbar. This week he answers the question: What is the Jewish 3 step program? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Serel Maness, 61, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Serel Chana bas Chaim Gedalia Maness OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights. She was 61 years old.
Here’s My Story: The Survivor Who Wouldn’t Sit Down
The story I would like to relate concerns my father, Sam Moss, more than me. My father was born in Munkatch, Czechoslovakia, what is now Mukachevo, Ukraine. There he attended the yeshivah of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira, author of Minchas Elazar, who was the Munkatcher Rebbe.
Baby Girl!
Mordechai and Chana Lightstone (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Mendel Grossbaum (Livingston, NJ) and Gitty Friedman (Florida)
Baby Boy!
Eli and Mushkie (nee Andrusier) Posner (Cooper City, FL)
Insight: A World of Metaphors
JLI presents its unique new two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant In·sight from Ethics of the Fathers, on A World of Metaphors and Why the Jewish sages looked to animals for life lessons.
Metzuyanim, a New School for French Students Sees Success
A campaign titled “Ecole Juive Pour Tous” which translates to “Jewish School for Everyone” was recently launched by the Shneor School in Aubervilliers, France, attracting many Jewish boys and girls to attend a Jewish school. Its recently completed first year is being billed a major success.
Oholei Torah Holds Father and Son Day
What has become an annual event for the eighth grade of Oholei Torah, is the Father and Son day in Yeshiva. This year’s event was held this past Sunday.
Cheder Menachem Awards Students for Learning Mishnayos
On Sunday 28 Iyar, talmidim of Cheder Menachem Los Angeles, together with their parents, grandparents, relatives and friends gathered together to mark the culmination of over two months of learning Mishnayos and Tanya Baal Peh, as a present to the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan.
13-year-old Aiden Axler donates original artwork to Chabad Hebrew School in Chester in honor or his bar mitzvah. (L to R) Rabbi Pesach Burston, Aiden Axler, Bonnie McCarthy (Aiden’s grandmother), Jessica Axler and Chana Burston
Bar-Mitzvah Boy Uses Art Talents to Spread Goodness
Aiden Axler of Highland Mills understands that reaching the milestone of celebrating Bar-Mitzvah means contributing to the world on a larger level.
Australian Rabbi Sends Message to Germany Amid Rise in Anti-Semitism
Chairman of Chabad in Australia’s Capital, Canberra, Rabbi Shmueli Feldman, had an important meeting with the Ambassador of Germany to Australia, Dr Anna Prinz.
Shliach Delivers Invocation at U.S. Embassy in J’lem
Fifty-one years after the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces entered the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, reunifying the holy city after almost two decades of Jordanian occupation, the United States of America officially moved its embassy to Israel’s capital city. The move, a perennial presidential campaign promise supported by U.S. leaders on both sides of the aisle for decades, was announced by President Donald J. Trump in December, 2017. The opening took place today in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and American and Israeli dignitaries.
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